Posted by
Jochen Fromm-4 on
Jul 20, 2008; 6:52pm
URL: http://friam.383.s1.nabble.com/REPOST-The-meaning-of-inner-tp573374p574184.html
Yes, an impressive supercomputer. I think it is much more difficult
to use a supercomputer with a trillion operations per second
than a huge cluster of ordinary computers, as you can find them
in Google's data centers.
-J.
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> For comparison, LANL Roadrunner has about 5 trillion transistors for the
> CPUs (~13000 PowerXCell 8i processors and ~6500 dual core Opterons) and
> another 800 trillion for RAM (~100 TB).
>
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